Examples of Indian Vaccination Act in the following topics:
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- The invasion of North America by European powers had widespread effects on American Indian life.
- Smallpox proved particularly fatal to American Indian populations.
- By 1832, the federal government established a smallpox vaccination program for American Indians, known as the Indian Vaccination Act.
- It was the first federal program created to address a health issue among American Indians.
- The Indian Wars of the early 18th century, combined with the increasing importation of African slaves, effectively ended the American Indian slave trade by 1750.
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- The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
- In 1965, the Voting Rights Act put an end to individual states claims on whether or not American Indians were allowed to vote through a federal law.
- Before the Voting Rights Act, many states had found ways to prevent American Indians from voting, such as residency or literacy requirements.
- With the passage of the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) in 1968, also called the Indian Bill of Rights, American Indians were guaranteed - at least on paper - many civil rights.
- One of the primary advocacy organizations for American Indian Rights, the American Indian Movement (AIM), was also formed during the 1960s.
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- The Dawes Act authorized the President to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
- The Dawes Act, also called General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
- The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society.
- The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess" to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians.
- Roosevelt administration supported passage in 1934 of the Indian Reorganization Act.
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- The resolution established that Congress would pass termination acts on a tribe by tribe basis.
- Most such acts included the cessation of federal recognition and all the federal aid that came along with that designation.
- These actions affected more than 12,000 American Indians or 3% of the total American Indian population.
- In 1975, Congress had implicitly rejected the termination policy by passing the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, increasing tribal control over reservations and assisting with funding to building schools closer to the reservations.
- Indian houses and farms on the Laguna Indian reservation, Laguna, New Mexico (March 1943).
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- The Dawes Act, also called General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
- The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society.
- The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess" to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians.
- The Curtis Act of 1908 completed the process of destroying tribal governments by abolishing tribal jurisdiction of Indian land.
- Roosevelt administration supported passage in 1934 of the Indian Reorganization Act.
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- I do by these presents require, all officers of the United States, as well civil as military, and all other citizens and inhabitants thereof, to govern themselves according to the treaties and act aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.
- The cultural assimilation of American Indians was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform American Indian culture to European-American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.
- It established American Indian boarding schools that children were required to attend.
- The Civilization Fund Act of 1819 promoted this policy by providing funding to societies (mostly religious) who worked on American Indian "improvement."
- These societies encouraged the assimilation and Christianization of American Indians.
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- The Indian Removal Act of 1830 set the stage for the forced relocation of American Indians from the east to the west.
- The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Jackson in 1830, and it had a profound and devastating impact on the lives of Americans.
- For American Indians, the Removal Act brought death and destruction.
- Congress opened a fierce debate on an Indian Removal Bill.
- Jackson's Removal Act called for relocation of all tribes to lands west of the river.
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- Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which authorized the President to negotiate treaties that exchanged Indian tribal lands in the eastern states for lands west of the Mississippi River.
- A special Indian territory was established in what is now the eastern part of Oklahoma in 1834.
- Despite protests from the elected Cherokee government and many whites who supported the tribe, the Cherokees were forced to trek to the Indian Territory in 1838.
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- The British hoped not only to gain greater control over colonial trade and frontier settlement, but also to reduce the administrative cost of the colonies and the enormous debt left by the French and Indian War.
- Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
- Victory over the French had proved very costly, however, and the British believed the frontier had to be secured with a standing army in order to prevent another costly war with American Indian tribes.
- Like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts led many colonists to work together against what they perceived to be an unconstitutional measure.
- The Tea Act of 1773 triggered a reaction with far more significant consequences than either the 1765 Stamp Act or the 1767 Townshend Acts.
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- Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of forces in British North America, as well as other British officers who fought in the French and Indian War, were finding it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for the quartering and provisioning of troops on the march.
- No standing army had been kept in the colonies before the French and Indian War, and the colonies questioned why a standing army was needed after the French had been defeated.
- An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.
- This act was passed and enforced along with many others, known by the colonists as the 'Intolerable Acts'.
- This Act expired on March 24, 1776.